Ramapo Mountain State Forest

Any hike with ruins pretty much gets an automatic five stars from me, but I thought Ramapo's ruins were especially beautiful (with a bit of a sad and short history behind them, if you care to look...

My 350th Yelp review is a banger. I try to stop by Ramapo at least once a year, usually at the beginning of hiking season; there's a nice 5- or 6-mile route I do in there that helps me build up...

For our annual fall hike, my husband and I did the Van Slyke Castle Loop trail, which All Trails lists as moderate and I would say that it's pretty accurate. It starts off as a nice, flat trail....

There is a well-marked network of trails here. I met up with a local hiking group in the upper lot on Skyline Drive. In my previous visit to this park, I'd begun at the lower lot. We followed the...

Gorgeous day for a hike (low 60s)...we parked at the lower parking lot, took the Blue Trail (very pretty right from the get go, rocky incline hiking...season streams depending on amount of rain...